Goodbye, Franco. It really wasn’t nice knowing you.
By now, even the Labour Party knows that Franco Debono is totally neurotic. But that doesn’t stop it making use of his acute neuroses by parading him on Super One and egging him on to further acts of self-harm, because it knows that these acts of self-harm will also damage its enemy.
Of course, the Labour Party has also been handed a gift in the form of all this talk of reconciliation with Debono by some people in the Nationalist Party (the party itself immediately shot down the very suggestion that the ban on Debono standing for election on its ticket should be lifted).
The Labour Party knows that key segments of the PN electoral base would rather see the Budget vote lost, the government collapse and an election called, even if the PN loses it, than endure for one week longer the sight of the prime minister and party leader humiliated, embarrassed and held hostage by a couple of c**ts.
I apologise for using this description, even with asterisks, but it really is the only one that suffices.
Yes, Jeffrey and Franco are a couple of c**ts and the prime minister, the government and the Nationalist Party do not win respect by tolerating them, talking to them, negotiating with them or countenancing even for a minute the prospect of any form of reconciliation with them.
No, by doing this they lose respect and haemorrhage votes. A thousand fables, narratives, films and tales from history should have taught certain people the truth about who inspires the most respect: those who die fighting or those who stay alive by allowing themselves to be taken as slaves.
The answer, of course, is the former. Those who disagree say that respect is worthless when you’re dead. They miss the point that a leader, a government and a party who are not respected are dead anyway.
If the government goes down for refusing to pander to the whims of a fixated madman, the Nationalist Party will garner and retain respect that will make its survival in the aftermath of a heavy electoral defeat a lot easier.
If it survives for a few months beyond the Budget with a gun held to its head by that same fixated madman, it will still suffer heavy defeat at the polls, but the difference is that the universal contempt in which it will be held for allowing itself to be taken into slavery by Franco and Jeffrey will make its post-electoral recovery very difficult indeed.
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Goodbye? I think good riddance suits better.
A figure of fun for all occasions.
‘Jokingly, [Joseph Calleja] said that the event [the bestowment of the Honoris Causa] almost did not happen because he was informed he had to present his Form II report.’
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121102/local/calleja.443736
I think you summed that up excellently.
Opinion polls are proving you right, as over the past few months it appears that the PN has lost support rather than gained it.
Which part of ‘no wucking way’ don’t you understand, Franco?
FUNNY FARM FRANCO FINALLY FLIPPED.
Funny you should bring this up but I was just this afternoon explaining this to my son who is 9, after watching a film.
He could not understand, initially, why in certain circumstances it is better to die than to survive, if it means throwing all you believe in down the drain to do so.
I told him that every time you look in a mirror for the rest of your life you will always see yourself, and it’s important that every time you do this you do not feel shamed by some action you have taken in the past.
Can you imagine how freaks like Debono and JPO feel when they look into a mirror?
[Daphne – They’re deluded, and surrounded by people who feed their delusion, so they probably feel great.]
Good point. Vichy France comes to mind.
Franco played his last card and he lost.
I think that Dr Simon Busuttil should be very careful how he comes across on the possibility of some kind of reconciliation with Franco Debono.
On Radio 101 yesterday, one of the listeners rang in to comment about Franco Debono’s tone – that it seemed to be quite reconciliatory. That be as it may, to my amazement, Dr Busuttil seemed only too willing to agree about that possibility.
I’m very sorry but I think that Dr Busuttil should not risk losing his credibility on account of such a loser.
Even Joseph Calleja ridiculed him this evening
I am waiting for Franco’s retaliation. Can he withdraw his title of Cultural Ambassador using one of those Hu Go Fik motions in Parliament?
The relationship between the PL and Franco Debono can best be described as ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’, and basically that will sum it all up nicely.
Franco is too predictable. His IQ is surely below average and he thinks he can hold our country hostage of his stupid gimmicks.
Thanks to Simon Busuttil he exposed his true self once again, not that we needed further reassurance that something is wrong with him.
Joseph Callejja will now be his next target for mocking his Form 2 report.
This is not the PN I knew in my earlier years. What a pity: vicious with the weak and yet meek as a lamb with the vicious.
Oh Eddie Fenech Adami, where art thou?
Appeasement doesn’t work (see Neville Chamberlain), and the idea that reconciliation is possible with the vendetta-driven is a joke.
An election is going to happen anyway, and this pandering to whims and egos will be remembered with disdain as a desperate way of clinging to power.
The Maltese Statler and Waldorf are not amusing.
If it is true that the parliamentary assistant in the Office of the Prime Minister (Franco) has been neglecting his duties, I expect Gonzi to fire him immediately. Nobody should be paid for doing sod all.
As Jeffrey is now an independent MP, his position as Chairman of MCST could easily be misconstrued by most people as being a bribe by the government to buy his vote.
Both should have their personal belongings littering their respective offices packed in a cardboard box, and delivered to their homes, preferably at some unearthly hour.
Franco Debono says that Paul Borg Olivier’s secretary is his own wife.
If this true it’s shameful. Very poor governance.
I’m shocked that Dr Gonzi allowed this.
I just don’t know what to say.
But let us also add that Mrs Borg Oliver was Joe Saliba’s secretary too. So it made sense keeping her. I think Pawlu is doing a good job.
A stupid error of judgement by Simon Busuttil and here we go again with the charade.
I still believe that the Franco will not bring the government down but fully agree that this talk of reconciliation with Franco does more harm than good.
Again a sign of weakness from the party leadership. Simon might have all the good intentions in the world but we are where we are because we have a Prime Minister who believes, like Simon does, in good will.
Not with these c**ts (as you put it)…..
He’s on One right now, looking more like a candidate for a Dermatology Atlas than a politician.
He’s so obsessed with you, Daphne; poor man, he’s periodically looking over his shoulder in case the Snickers bar lunges at him. You never know what the voices tell Franco to do after all.
As to the content, in psychiatry, it’s called ‘knight’s move’, exquisitely/tragically incoherent.
Indeed, we’ll have a people’s court on whose fault it was to drag the matter out for that long. Guess who’ll be blamed?
Let all responsibility lie with him and no one else.
The above are the thoughts of all those who respect the words honour and dignity
Watching him and feeling sick. It’s ‘me me me jien jien jien’. Kemm hu marid, miskin.
Reconciliation? It would sound more like appeasement to me.
Different subject. Take your pick for the future of our economy:
Ekonomija tal-kcina, Mintoffjan economics. Veru serhan tal-mohh.
We’ll have kawlata Labour budgets back on the menu from 2013.
Price controls with TVM PL showing list after list of how much grocery items should cost.
Price freezing and wage freezing, time in lieu and many other happy memories flash in front for my eyes whilst I brace myself for 2013.
Now I understand why the world will end on 21 December 2012, it must be the day when the general election votes are counted. Darn the Mayans they got it spot on.
Do you know what MaltaRightNow.com is on about with the latest news because I cannot resist anymore?
He wants to have a look at the party’s accounts now.
Paul Borg Olivier is his target at the moment.
What a freak – he is toying with the idea of contesting for deputy leader of the PN when he admitted that he has resigned from the PN. What kind of deputy would he be?
The sooner we see the back of him the better.
Ghax issa lahaq accountant it-tifel.
Screw them both and go down at least with some semblance of honour.
Lessons learned: next time do not make the same selection mistakes again. (Freebie advice from the oil industry.)
So you are basically saying that Joseph Muscat was right all along about this issue. Lawrence Gonzi has been kept hostage for nearly a year now.
I am disappointed with Dr. Busuttil. How can it be possible that he has not noticed what an irrational man Franco Debono is.
Why does Busuttil want to do business with him and re-invite him to the fold after the hatred he spewed at our prime minister and his cabinet.
I am flabbergasted, Dr. Busuttil.
I don’t believe Simon in any way suggested that Franco be permitted to contest the elections in the name of the Nationalist Party.
I read his words as being to the effect that iF Franco takes responsibility for his actions then he might be let back into the fold.
But that’s a big ‘iF’. We all know that Franco is incapable of accepting responsibility for what he has done.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121102/local/calleja.443736
Joseph Calleja receives honorary degree.
“Jokingly, he (Joseph Calleja) said that the event almost did not happen because he was informed he had to present his Form II report.”
Will Franco Debono call for Calleja’s resignation? But, from what?
I think history is repeating itself. Some years ago someone quoted a Roman saying which fits this situation:
“It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb.”
This time the PN won’t be in a Catch 22 eternal dilemma of who was right (Mintoff or Sant).
It is clear-cut that Gonzi is on the right side of history. The PN will gather the pieces in no time and scare away anyone who would try taking the party as hostage by the single majority vote.
Did you watch PM and Opposition leader on Xarabank yesterday?
It seems to me that Dr. Muscat’s only initiative for the next 5 years is going to be the lowering of the Electricity bills.
On each and every question he was asked he ended up speaking about “l-ekonomija tal-kcina” and how he will lower the price of electricity come what may.
He even shot down government’s schemes which promote the use of solar energy.
A main flaw in his argument is that he speaks about the middle class as those who are suffering these bills most of all but then speaks about people not being able to cope with life and those who are on the edge of poverty.
Those who are on the edge of poverty are not the middle class and if they are on the edge of poverty then they are probably getting the special rates that are allocated to those who are means tested.
Anyway, I did not manage to watch till the end as I could not take it especially when the leader of the opposition spoke in syllables to make a point.
Briguglio did not speak much but the bit he spoke he managed to put forward a very realistic set of comments.
It is good that Alternattiva is taking a less extreme stance and becoming more pragmatic.
They just need to have their own politics rather than just criticize however.
Good performance by Dr. Gonzi overall – very well prepared and factual. The only comment would be that he should not let the Leader of the opposition set the agenda but should drive his own. The price of water and electricity was and is not the only issue at the moment.
Agreed. The PM should have insisted on an answer given that Joseph kept reverting to the one subject on his mind.
That, I believe, is enough to deserve the answer. Joseph Muscat doesn’t have one.
Franco, read these words carefully and see if you can identify yourself with the words of this fantastic song by Pink Floyd
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me ’till I’m sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There’s someone in my head but it’s not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
Both Gonzi and Gatt would be fools if they resign.
They need to show Franco that they are not weak. Let Franco do his thing and then the responsibility will be his of what happens after.
Franco carries on like this to keep us amused. And you, Daphne, keep us informed.
excellent analysis
Franco Debono behaves like Raoul Silva, the psychopathic character in the Bond movie SKYFALL.
Given the chance to have his finger on the button, Debono would reap the same havoc, but of course in the context of Malta.
This man is totally scary. His reaction is way over the top. Joseph Calleja dared make a joke about his form 2 result, and this is how Franco Debono reacts:
http://www.francodebono.com/2012/11/04/has-joseph-calleja-become-a-buffoon-now-joseph-shall-we-tell-the-whole-world-why-you-chose-to-make-an-indirect-reference-to-me-in-your-honoris-causa-ceremony/#comment-21860
Does anybody know why Joseph Calleja got Debono’s knickers in a twist during his honoris causa ceremony.